The Alternative to Price and Market :

2010 Berlin 2nd GYG

TYG Huck Lin

Earth Party Revolution

Being the Change you wish to se in the world～ Mahatma Gandhi

Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Crisis with Time & Lifestyle

System change, not climate change• 「 System change, not climate change!」

～ Klima forum 09 ； Peoples Climate Movement

• Three Key Systems of Civilization– Time/Calendar： Reducing production and consumption;

conserve calendar and bio diversity;– Space/Territory： International wildlife corridor web; ”Ne

tion” based on watershed;– Economy/Currency：without interests, decay with time。

～ Give more Time, Space, Power, Love and Respects to Other Life.

Framework• The Present Analysis：

– Kyoto protocol, Emission trade mechanism, time dimension, identity of green politics, the failure of GDP

• The Vision: ：– sustainable Peace, keep biodiversity, warming under 1.5℃– New Strategy: base on Time and Calendar

• The Gap ：– the Story of Stuff, the Story of Cap and trade, the COP15, Time Dimens

ion, Identity in Green Politics, Redefine Climate Crisis

• The Action Plans:– Take the ecological footprint responsibility and react from person, to fam

ily, corporate, unions, community, state continent, culture society.– Shorten the work hours, change the lifestyle.– Reducing consumption and production, and energy caused at the

same time.

• More context of the idea

Nowadays ： Kyoto Protocol

• 1997 ,December, COP3 at Tokyo Japan 。

• Goal: To keep the green house gas in a stable level, avoiding the damage from violent climate change. ～Wikipedia

• Methods ： Cap and Trade 、CDM 、 REDD 、 Joint Implementation

＊ The Environment Issue under International political wrestle.

Nowadays ： Pollution Trading• 1967~1970 US. Scholar Ellison Burton & William Sanjour, for SO2 redu

ction. Lowest costs for polluters. Economic initiatives for Market players 。

• 「 Even the C&T inventers don’t think it will work for Climate Change 」~~Story of Cap and Trade

• 「 What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. 」

• ~~Lord Darlington, Act III; wikiquote

• When we put everything into the markets, we also ruined the world

• Earth and ecosystems do not follow market mechanism. Another

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Possible.

Nowadays: GDP’s deficiency

• 「 To evaluate social prosperity, we need not only economic growth, but also sustainability and life wellness. 」 ~Sustainable Development Commission

• 2009 Nobel Economy Price, Stiglitz ：「 Give up the worships to ＧＤＰ」

• 20091018Chia-Wei, Chao ： Following Stiglitz’s view, the other theories under GDP paradigm are becoming voodoo economics ！

• http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/redefining-prosperity.html

• http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010627.html

Nowadays ： Environment and Politics in Taiwan

Taiwan Environmental problems are only a node of global capitalism expansion chain; RCA 、 Nuclear Power Station came form US, Japan old Tech; Electronic Industries link to California silicon Valley

～ Green Citizen’s Action Alliance, Hui-min,Liu

2007

Nowadays ： WTO 、 Money Lord

2005 WTO Ministers Meeting, Hong Kong ～ Public Citizen, Lori Wallach

Nowadays ： Conflict between Expansionism and Conservationism

Hu-xiong,Huang 黃武雄， 《學校在窗外》「擴張主義或保留主義」，台灣社區大學

Nowadays ： The Rhythms of world

Population, Currency, Civilization

Biodiversity, Nature

Day-Night,Seasons, Stars-Planet

Laws, Rights

TIME

Quality/Quantity/Degree

The Vision:• Keep Temperature incensement under +1~

1.5 to pre-industrial era℃ 之內 ~~2010APGN; Pachamama

• Conserve biodiversity/ LOVE– Buddhism: “All Creatures are Equal"/ modern Ec

ology “biophilia”

• The world will know peace when the power of love overcome the love to power, ～ Jimi Hendrix

• Sustainable Peace– 「 True security dose not depend on the size an

d Strength of our military, it comes from serene life within Earth capacity 」 ~~Greenchange

• …..and more.

The Gap ：• Story of Stuff

http://www.storyofstuff.com/international/– The produce-use-waste linear model to earning money– The cycling model based of ecological principles

• Story of Cap and Trade http://vimeo.com/8528179– The problems in cap and trade ：

• 1. Free Permits ～ recognizing and encouraging pollutions;• 2. Offsetting ～ Cheat happens;• 3. Distraction ～ blurring the focus, excuse to keep business as u

sual

• The failure of Copenhagen– Diverse consideration between Rich and poor countries: The

governments controlled by capitalists– Financial help and tech transfer: The profits barriers in Resear

ch and Development, and Tech proving

The Gap ： Identity in Green Politics

• Family: Son/daughter/children /Brothers/sisters/cousins

• School: Friends/peers/classmates• Education: Students/teachers • Age: Youths/adults • Gender: Mates/homosexual, heterosexuals/LGBT • Parents: Father/mother/parents • Workplace: Worker/employer/employees/boss/clas

s• Community: Neighbor/strangers/communities • Society: Social activist/ Politicians/ occupation • Sexuality: Man/woman• Daily life: Taipeier/ New Yorker/ cities/regions • Nationality: Taiwanese/Chinese/ Asians /ethnic • Ethnic: Yellow/white/black • Species: Homo sapiens/ polar bear/ blue whale/ ba

cteria• Solar system/Galaxy:…… ？

Is there a question about being Natural, or civilized ?

The Symbols are tools to control Nature, and the foundation of civilization,where we depart form our natural self. ～ John Zerzan

• We are star stuff harvesting star light. ~~Zeitgeist

The numerous galaxies in a corner of universe from Harbor Telescope

The Gap ： Missing Time dimension

• 「 Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. 」 ～ Albert Einstein

• (beyond the market level) time

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• Looking at moon, thinking of the past and future;• Looking for stars, distinct the great and small;• Waiting a shooting star, questioning the second and timeless

Relative Theory ： everything is relative, except the speed of light.

Being the light of dark time, the transition will come.~ Vandana Shiva

However, the point is to change it ！ ~K Marx

The Gap ： thinking at different time-space scale

• 「 Two insights in Ecology: Everything connects; the scale matters. 」～ Hen-biau, King 金恆鑣

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The Gap ： Redefine climate crisis

• It is a issue about human survival, existence, material, energy, lifestyle, power, space, time and choices;

• The sense of time comes from the change of status;

• The concept of time is the first original alienation, departing human from Nature. ～ John Zerzan‧

• The emergent and calm are also relative altitudes; • Facing the Climate Crisis, we need

– Not only capitalist’s view （ making more money ）；– But also labors view: shortening the work hours;– And Citizen’ change to different lifestyles.

The Action Plans ： New strategies～ The means of time and calendar

• The calendars reflect the agriculture and cultures everywhere, regulating how people interacts with the nature;

• New calendars----decide the life path according to the emission goal and annual accumulated emissions;

• Increasing the Holidays (time to rest) such as Extreme Weather Holidays.

The Action Plans

• 「 common but different responsibilities 」～ Strategies under different scales, but Common principle: Take direct responsibilities form individual to societies.

• Individuals ： Transforming the life to Zero-waste style; political involvements;

• Industries and Labors ： Cutting the work hours, while exploring the green energies;

• Governments ： Announcing the weather holidays according to annual accumulated GHG emissions, reducing traffic and daily energy consumption.

The Action Plans• International ： COP16 Campaign

– 21 hours, Lifestyle reform, reducing production, consumption and related energy using at the same TIME;

– Replacing the National identities by “Netion”, the watershed identities;

– International wildlife conservation web—giving more time and SAPCE to other life;

– The forth aspect of Biodiversity Conservation: Genetic, Species, Habitat and Ecological principles.

• Cultures ： Calendars as a key part of culture, regulating humane activities. Conserve Calendar diversities

The Action Plans ： New money system, Tobin Tax

• Goal ： The currency decaying with time, like everything else on the world;

• Local Currencies, stopping the endless force of “monetization”

• The currencies reserve should based on renewable resources, like fresh water, soil, biodiversity, green energy; not base on gold, or military power.

Amendments to GG 21 points

• Markets need to be regulated in order to reduce the environmental footprint of our economies. Prices have to reflect the real costs including the social and ecological costs.

Amendment:• Markets need to be regulated in order to reduce

the environmental footprint of our economies. Prices can not reflect the real costs including the social and ecological loss or extinction. Money system should be reformed according to the basic necessary renewable resources like fresh water or healthy soil.

References• 21 hours

http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/21-hours• 2010/05/03 Two Resolution drafts for APGN, GYG, GG, or any Greens in the future 給下次綠黨會議的

兩個決議文草案。 http://www.facebook.com/huck.lin?v=app_2347471856#!/note.php?note_id=390677186405

• 2009/10/07 Take “work time” as an option to comtrol the GHG emission 將「工作時間」視為控制溫室氣體排放量的選項http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfpxp3f7_8cqrbdhcs

• 2009/03/xx INYCPM The Work Plan-March 國際氣候政策青年倡議者網絡（暫譯） http://0rz.tw/0OCxq• 2008/10/21 全球安息年與國際保育網--google創意徵選 http://huck2.blogspot.com/2008/10/google.html• 2008/04/30 戳破碳交易詭計 全球青年綠人要求改變生活習慣！ http://www.coolloud.org.tw/node/20319• 2007/4/29 護生態環境的心靈改革從改變國家意識開始

http://huck2.blogspot.com/2007/12/netion-internetion.html• 2007/01/07 Give Earth a Break ！讓地球休息一下，饒了地球吧 http://www.coolloud.org.tw/node/483• 2006/09/25 世界和平-5--幾個方法 http://0rz.tw/XFMeU• 2006/03/16 立法者最需要生態學 http://0rz.tw/XFMeU• 20051210-18 香港 WTO 部長會議場外觀察心得— Anti War Terrorism Organization http://0rz.tw/PXvMr• 20051210-18 香港筆記全 http://0rz.tw/bl6k8• 20051210-18 綠色陣線協會 1214WallachOnWTO 身世與簡介細緻圖 2 http://0rz.tw/EV6bT• BBS-Ptt.cc -> 國家研究院 -> Academy -> EarthAstro -> Ecophilia• 〈 World watch 2009 ：縮短工時 -- 價值觀轉變〉、〈 Money and the crisis of civilization 〉 http://www.

realitysandwich.com/money_and_crisis_civilization

Ask not only what the Mother Earth do for us, ask also what we can do for Earth.

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

---- 1961,1,20~ 約翰．甘迺迪 John F. Kennedy

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